GRGR: oneirine

[Doug Millison]

"Now, tell me, has any god bestowed on mankind a specific to induce fear --
a drug whose effect is that the more a man permits himself to imbibe of it,
the darker he fancies his fortune at every draught, present and future
alike grow increasingly alarming, and the climax is abject terror in the
bravest, though when the subject has recovered from his stupor and shaken
off the effects of the potion, he regularly becomes his own man again? ...
a touchstone of the courage or cowardice of your citizens." -- Plato

I imagine somebody can place this quote, which I recently encountered as an
epigraph in a book.

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